Used to travel there for work. Cool place to visit, wouldnt want to live there. Their infrastructure is amazing though. Impossible to get lost there. Downtown is a giant flat grid. Highways were 8 lanes with 2 lane feeder ramps for each exit.

I've heard good things about the housing market down there. Obviously, taxes are MUCH more favorable in that part of the country than they are in the northeast, for the most part. Lot of culture and stuff down there too.

Worked at a few power plants down there a few different times... didn't like it. It was Spring/Summer so obviously it was hot and humid and miserable and miserable and miserable. Their mosquitos down there (even when it rains) are just like the absolute worst thing in the world. Biting through underwear, pants, and rain gear. 3 layers. MISERABLE.

Haha, no, but other than that I went into a Walmart to see if they had any chicken wire/fence or whatever you would like to call it... and NOT A SINGLE PERSON at 11pm spoke english. I literally could not find someone to speak to me in English. I kid you not. Take from that whatever you like, I'm not stating anything other than my experience.

I think you can do MUCH worse in the US. AFAIK, Houston is a high-growth, high-tech city, three excellent universities (Rice, UofH, A&M within a manageable driving distance), reasonably liberal (I think they are the largest city in the US with an openly gay mayor). Ultimately, career opportunities and growth options beat weather any day for me. (Since I spend a lot of time in Twin Cities, hot weather does not seem bad at all to me... )

Is there a reasonable public transit? Do you have to get on a highway to get anywhere? I just don't want to live in a place where you have to drive everywhere and I can't ride my ruckus anywhere.

My cousin is head of corporate banking in texas for a regional bank...he's been trying to get me to move down to texas for a while and I'm finally warming up to the idea. I'm sold on moving to austin, i know i'm not going to dallas, but this opportunity in houston sounds lucrative so I have to atleast consider it.

SoupOrSam wrote:Worked at a few power plants down there a few different times... didn't like it. It was Spring/Summer so obviously it was hot and humid and miserable and miserable and miserable. Their mosquitos down there (even when it rains) are just like the absolute worst thing in the world. Biting through underwear, pants, and rain gear. 3 layers. MISERABLE.

Haha, no, but other than that I went into a Walmart to see if they had any chicken wire/fence or whatever you would like to call it... and NOT A SINGLE PERSON at 11pm spoke english. I literally could not find someone to speak to me in English. I kid you not. Take from that whatever you like, I'm not stating anything other than my experience.

I have heard that the mosquitos are pretty ridiculous. I'm more of a love heat person, so while i'd be miserable hot for a couple months every year...there's a month here in pittsburgh where the heat is unbearable as well. And if the winter is anything like it is in austin or dallas, that would be amazing.

Never lived there. But in my discussions with people from Texas, public transportation is largely ineffective throughout the state of Texas as a whole. Nothing compared to the east coast, AIUI. Again, though, I never lived there, just from multiple accounts, this seems to be the case.

I have to travel to Houston once a month. Everything is spread out. Traffic is horrendous. The people are usually nice, even though they have the Texas is superior attitude. I enjoy my trips there in the winter, but I dread the summer trips.